Magic Bus · The Who

155 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10-23 and 32-55, and 2 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
MAGIC BUS · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 13 sections: 136 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-55.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART E
PART G
PART H
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBHDEG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Magic Bus?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Magic Bus hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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